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LE043 Quality Technology Services, LLC
Director Accounting
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A Director of Accounting oversees all financial operations of a company or organization. They manage accounting staff, oversee financial reporting, and develop and implement accounting policies and ensure compliance with tax and accounting regulations.
$164,689 / year median in Kansas
Job Description
SUMMARY The Director, Accounting is responsible for the leadership and direction to a team of finance professionals and managers with primary responsibilities for managing the month-end close process for one or more areas of financial reporting, journal entries, reconciliations, and maintaining a robust control environment within the organization. Position requires a candidate with a significant amount of professional agility, a self-starter that quickly and effectively translates organization initiatives to departmental goals in order to achieve desired results.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES, other duties may be assigned.- Develop and maintain financial reporting for various levels of internal management reporting needs
- Lead responsibility for month-end close processes and variance reporting
- Assist in financial budgeting and forecasting
- Provide support for the annual internal and external audits
- Execute on designed SOX internal controls governing public companies
- Identify and design effective, efficient controls
- Responsible for maintaining a high-performing team including mentoring and training staff members and identifying cross-training opportunities
- Lead other finance managers through example and work ethic to accomplish department development goals
- Work with team members establish annual goals and strategic objectives
- Demonstrate agility with competing projects and priorities
- Lead and nurture a work culture with a positive attitude that promotes open, frequent and dynamic communication among staff, stimulating teamwork to accomplish desired goals and objectives
- Responsible for supporting management initiatives including process standardization and simplification, financial analysis and research, and reporting
- Collaborate with other department in accomplishing strategic objectives
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- BA/BS in Accounting or Finance or Business Management with an emphasis in Accounting
- Seven or more years of experience in the accounting/financial reporting areas
- Five or more years of supervisory experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Four or more years of experience in public accounting at a Big 4 firm
- Seven or more years of supervisory experience
- CPA
- MBA, or graduate finance related degree
- Workday Financials experience or other large ERP systems
- Intermediate understanding of REIT industry
- Working knowledge of Corporate Tax and accounting for various legal entities
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Excellent communicator with executive level managers
- Experience with delivering high level presentations to company executives
- A strategic thinker with an understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and financial processes
- Professional agility
- Intermediate/advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Experience with automated accounting systems
- Must have the ability to effectively interface with all levels of the organization
- Demonstrate willingness to partner across internal departments with competing priorities